London Design Festival 2014: paintings in the V&A museum's Raphael Gallery are reflected in two huge mirrored structures in this installation by London design duo Barber and Osgerby. More about Barber and Osgerby's giant rotating mirrors reflect Raphael paintings inside the V&A
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in the next preview of our Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition, we visit Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg at the RCA workshop where she's been making 112 miniature cars to create a "model ecosystem" of vehicles. More about Car design and production could "start to show biological adaptation and mutation"
London Design Festival 2014: British furniture brand Heal's has launched a range of furniture aimed at young home-owners with little space – the same target market Ikea identified for its latest PS1 collection – including shelves by legendary designer Kenneth Grange (+ slideshow). More about Heal's launches Ambrose collection for space-starved city dwellers
News: ecommerce giant Amazon has selected an office building by Foster + Partners for central London as its new UK home. More about Amazon chooses building by Foster + Partners as home for 5,000 UK staff
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British designer Patrick Stevenson-Keating has reimagined the financial system to create a banking process intended to encourage users to think more about their purchases for this year's Designers in Residence programme at London's Design Museum (+ slideshow). More about Patrick Stevenson-Keating reimagines the value of currency
London Design Festival 2014: architect Zaha Hadid has installed a shimmering "bridge" to cross a reflecting pool in the V&A museum's John Madejski Garden (+ slideshow). More about Zaha Hadid installs aluminium wave over pool in V&A museum garden
London Design Festival 2014: Norwegian studio Anderssen & Voll has created a bar stool for Italian brand Magis that reinterprets a design that appeared in sci-fi films and TV shows. More about Anderssen & Voll reinterprets Magis' gas-lift bar stool
Fashion house Valentino's New York flagship store, with a grey Terrazzo interior by British architect David Chipperfield, has opened to shoppers (+ slideshow). More about David Chipperfield's Valentino flagship store opens in New York
London Design Festival 2014: the British capital's annual celebration of design officially kicks off on Saturday, so our design editor Dan Howarth has selected his pick of the best installations, locations and exhibitions to visit around the city between 13-21 September. More about Dezeen selects the top 7 things to see at London Design Festival 2014
London designer James Christian has created a series of architectural parasites intended to occupy empty rooftops, car parks and greens of dilapidated estates across the capital for his residency at the city's Design Museum. More about James Christian designs parasitic structures for disused city spaces
Opinion: Scotland once boasted its own distinct regional building styles, but since devolution began in the 1990s Scottish architecture has fallen foul of the profit-chasing short-termism that has blighted the rest of the UK, says Owen Hatherley. More about "What might the future of Scottish architecture be in an independent state?"
London Design Festival 2014: design brand SCP is launching its latest collection of products, furniture and accessories across its two London shops next week, including new designs from Reiko Kaneko, Lucy Kurrein and Donna Wilson (+ slideshow). More about SCP launches Autumn Winter 2014 collection during London Design Festival
The shell of the Leadenhall Building by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners – also known as the Cheesegrater – is now complete and has been handed over to its future tenants for fit out (+ slideshow). More about Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners hands over the Leadenhall Building for fit out
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: artist Lucy McRae shows us the experiments she's been doing with emergency blankets and vacuum cleaners in our second behind-the-scenes preview of next week's Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition. More about Lucy McRae experiments with negative pressure to "prep humans to go to space"
News: Zaha Hadid has won the commission for a new gallery dedicated to maths at the Science Museum in London, with a design that explores "the many influences of mathematics in our everyday lives". More about Zaha Hadid to create maths gallery at London's Science Museum
London Design Festival 2014: natural materials suspended in resin to create furniture by Italian design duo Alcarol will be displayed at the Mint Gallery during the London Design Festival next week (+ slideshow). More about Alcarol traps natural materials in resin to form New Visions furniture collection
British firm Austin-Smith:Lord used textured brick for the internal and external surfaces of this monastery in Liverpool to give it an austere but coherent aesthetic (+ slideshow). More about Carmelite Monastery by Austin-Smith:Lord designed to be "calm, ordered and uplifting"
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in the first of a series of preview movies running up to the Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition next week, designer Dominic Wilcox shows us the car he is making out of stained glass for the show. More about Behind the scenes with Dominic Wilcox making his "stained-glass driverless car"
Competition: we've teamed up with publishing and events company Media 10 to give Dezeen readers the chance to win one of 25 pairs tickets to the 100% Design exhibition, taking place during next week's London Design Festival. More about Competition: 25 pairs of 100% Design tickets to be won